From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
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Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Memory providers multiplexing (Was: [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:32:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230711093224.1bf30ed5@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04187826-8dad-d17b-2469-2837bafd3cd5@kernel.org>
On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:20:58 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> On 7/11/23 10:00 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> >> RDMA works with the AMD and Intel intree drivers using DMABUF without
> >> requiring struct pages using the DRM hacky scatterlist approach.
> > I see, thanks. We need pages primarily for refcounting. Avoiding all
> > the infamous problems with memory pins. Oh well.
>
> io_uring for example already manages the page pinning. An skb flag was
> added for ZC Tx API to avoid refcounting in the core networking layer.
Right, we can refcount in similar fashion. Still tracking explicitly
when buffers are handed over to the NIC.
> Any reason not to allow an alternative representation for skb frags than
> struct page?
I don't think there's a hard technical reason. We can make it work.
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[not found] ` <20230612130256.4572-5-linyunsheng@huawei.com>
2023-06-14 17:19 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 7:17 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-15 16:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-15 18:26 ` Alexander Duyck
2023-06-16 12:20 ` Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-16 15:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2023-06-16 18:59 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-06-16 19:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-16 20:42 ` Memory providers multiplexing (Was: [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag) Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-06-19 18:07 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-20 15:12 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2023-06-20 15:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-30 2:27 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-03 4:20 ` David Ahern
2023-07-03 6:22 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-03 14:45 ` David Ahern
2023-07-03 17:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2023-07-03 17:23 ` David Ahern
2023-07-06 1:19 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-03 17:15 ` Eric Dumazet
2023-07-03 17:25 ` David Ahern
2023-07-03 21:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-06 1:17 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 17:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-10 23:02 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-10 23:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 0:45 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 13:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 17:24 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 4:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-11 4:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 5:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-07-11 12:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 16:00 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 16:20 ` David Ahern
2023-07-11 16:32 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-07-11 17:06 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 20:39 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 21:39 ` David Ahern
2023-07-12 3:42 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-12 7:55 ` Christian König
2023-07-12 13:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-12 13:35 ` Christian König
2023-07-12 22:41 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-12 13:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-12 20:16 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-12 23:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-13 7:56 ` Christian König
2023-07-14 14:55 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-14 15:18 ` David Ahern
2023-07-17 2:05 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-17 3:08 ` David Ahern
2023-07-14 15:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-17 1:53 ` Mina Almasry
2023-07-11 16:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 17:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 18:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 20:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-07-11 23:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-07-11 6:52 ` Dan Williams
2023-07-06 16:50 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-06-17 12:19 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/5] page_pool: remove PP_FLAG_PAGE_FRAG flag Yunsheng Lin
2023-06-15 13:59 ` Alexander Lobakin
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